Working as a key Finance Business Partner for a nationwide network of consumer based services, with a budget in the region of £1bn you will responsible for providing data driven analysis and insight to MDs across the business. By establishing strong relationships you will control commercial decision making looking to create a culture of standardisation across this complex service.

Key responsibilities include:

Provide support, insight and challenge to the Operations Strategy leadership team to drive performance against budgets/targets, identify risks/opportunities, and control of functional budgets (staff and non-staff) and of investment projects (control of expenditure/realisation of benefits)

Lead the finance support of Design, Efficiency and Production Control functions, providing input and review of business cases and development activities to ensure in line with allocated funding, and on-going control of costs/benefits realisation

Work closely with the transformation finance team to ensuring that field finance teams consistently and accurately account for the costs and benefits of national project activity within their ledgers to support business understanding of financial returns from major investment

Support with the functional targeting process, ensuring the transparent, equitable and efficient production of field based targets, along with central budgets and investment spend requirements

Ensure key performance indicators and underlying data sources are accurately reflected on a comparable basis for all analysis and reporting purpose